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Aligning Personal Trading Style with a Proprietary Trading Firm’s Expectations
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What this lesson covers
Most traders who fail an evaluation do not fail because their strategy stopped working. They fail because their natural way of trading collided with the firm's rules. This lesson starts by helping you define your own style honestly: your timeframe, how long you hold, how many trades you take and how much you risk. It then shows where each of those can conflict with typical prop firm parameters, from news restrictions to daily loss limits to consistency requirements, and how to adjust without dismantling the edge that makes you profitable. It also covers behaviour, since firms watch how you trade as well as what you return. The result is a clear picture of what firms are actually looking for and a practical route to becoming that kind of trader.